Commencement Exercise: Containing Addresses by the Members of the Faculty, Addresses by the Members of the Board, Normal Days Exercise, Academic Day Exercise (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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There is a legend told of an ant fleeing, while crossing a table, terror stricken from a lump of sugar which it saw for the first time in its life. A man, however, by intercepting with his finger the ant's retreat, forced it to come nearer and nearer to the dreaded object. The ant, being finally brought into close contact with it, tasted it, and discovering its sweetness, ran oft hastily to return soon with a host of companions to enjoy the delicious repast.

Something similar has been the experience of many young people that had contemplated from a distance our "Domestic Regulations" with feelings akin to abhorrence. No Academic year was ever begun without this phenomenon repeating itself, although it has been observed, that it is gradually diminishing and bidding fair to become entirely extinct in the near future.

Many reasons induced the Board and Faculty to adopt from the very commencement some system by which the controlling influence of the spirit of the Academy could be extended beyond the walls of the school building and the hours of recitation. The exuberance of animal spirits supported by healthy constitutions in the outweighing majority of our rising generation required, but, in the most of instances, found not that judicious and systematic training at home, which the nature of the case as well as the destiny of our youths demand. The founder of this institution realized, and so expressed it repeatedly, that the mere acquirement of knowledge without the cultivation of the character is a fallacy, which it is the mission of the Latter-day work to demonstrate by the adoption of a better educational system.

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